Peekaboo Trail is another popular trail within Bryce National Park. The trail itself is a loop and 3 miles long. It is located at the bottom of Bryce Canyon and loops around the magnificent Bryce Hoodoos. It is recommend to visitors to do Peekaboo Trail along with the Navajo Trail since there are rather close to each other. In addition, when hiking Peekaboo Trail, it is recommended to do this in clockwise direction to ease the hike.
We did Peekaboo Trail while we were hiking the Navajo Loop Trail. As the guide suggested, we started the trail with clockwise direction. The beginning of the trail was less interesting in a forest like section. However, the trail became rather beautiful with Hoodoos and colour rock formation along the trail.
The trail itself has some elevation gains but not too big of a deal. From many different part of the trail, we were having amazing views over the Bryce Canyon. It was so beautiful. We couldn't stop from taking more and more pictures.
When we were about 1 mile in, we were at an intersection with another trail that connects to Bryce Point. Some people chose to come down here from Bryce Point. This part of the trail was sand and rock formation and quite unique. The scene was really something from World of Warcraft. The trail was flat and goes around red rock canyon with few pine tress growing in between.
As we past the 1.5 miles mark, we saw the Windows. These were 2 windows high up on the cliff side. These Windows were just like the arches that you would see at Arches National Park. Other than the Windows, there were even more Hoodoos along the side.
Along the trails, there were also many tunnels that led the trail to go through the rocks. Some of these tunnels can be quite long and some were short where we had to bend over to pass through.
While we were hiking, we also saw many individual hikers on the trail, which is something that we did not see very often. We were thinking that they could be collage students from near by Universities.
The last portion of the trail took us through the zigzag switchbacks to go upwards. Just like the Navajo Loop Trail, the switchbacks were well graded and it was quite a scenery. There were less people here and we were able to take many more pictures.
Overall, this was quite an amazing trail. We highly recommend to do this trail along with Navajo Loop trail, which sums up to be around 4 miles in total hiking distance.
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